The Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award was created in 1955 to recognize shows produced off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and in legitimate not-for-profit theaters, in addition to Broadway shows. Previously, there had been only the Tony Awards, which focused solely on Broadway shows, ignoring the hundreds of other productions mounted in New York City each year. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Off-Off-Broadway refers to theatrical productions including plays, musicals or performance art pieces performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway productions or off-Broadway productions. ... A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award® but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area...

Originally they were known as the Vernon Rice Awards, in honor of the theatre critic from the New York Post. The name was changed in 1963. In its earliest years, a minimal number of prizes were awarded, but there now are as many categories as there are for the Tonys. The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

The Drama Desk Awards have proven to be the first step towards stardom for numerous theatrical luminaries, including Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Ryan Ward, George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Sada Thompson, Jose Quintero,and Dustin Hoffman. Off-Broadway productions such as Driving Miss Daisy, Steel Magnolias, and The Boys in the Band were propelled to international recognition based on their wins. Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. ... Ryan Zachary Ward (born June 26, 1990 in Pequannock, New Jersey) is an American child actor whose filmography includes the Academy Award nominated film Far From Heaven and the now-defunct popular television series Hack (television series). He currently resides in the renovated gatehouse of Cecil B. Demille in Wayne... George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 23, 1999) was a stage and Academy Award-winning actor, director, and producer. ... Stacy Keach (born Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. ... Sada Thompson (September 27, 1929 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an acclaimed American stage, film and television actress. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling, is a 1987 off-Broadway play, made into a successful movie in 1989. ... The Boys in the Band is the title of a play by Mart Crowley which delt with the lives of contemporary homosexuals. ...

External links

• Official website